and the response to that occasion. >> since peggy did mention the contributors could we have them just stand right now. those who are here.la we have laurie and betty, and donna. [applause] >> and we're going to invite them a little later in the program to say something about what this experience has meant to them and what motivated them to write to us because what we have found over the course of the last two months since this book was published that we developed a network, a sisterhood hood which we call the gtm sisterhood network and it's comprised of these 100 women who contributed to this outstanding work and to this historic work as peggy mentioned. and so we want you to know them a little bit better as well and so we will have them say something as we go through the program. but we wanted to tell you what motivated us on this book. we'll talk about the uncrowned queens a little bit later in the q & a because this has been a passion of ours for 10 years. the uncrowned queens institute. and maybe i'll just say a word about our mission. the mission of the institute is to identify, collect, pr